December 19, 2008 |
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Thank You and Summary of the 2008 C-CAVE Benefit Concert
A big thank you to everyone who helped to make our fundraising event on November 6th such a great success! Sylvia Cauley, Shirley Farlinger, Yvonne Buckingham, Eveyln Baker, Gloria Osborne, Melanie Duras, Mary Jane Speers, Oksana Deacon, Linda Wilding and Norman Dyson, worked tirelessly to make it all happen. Consider yourselves hugged. With well over 100 people there, it was our best attended ever. A special thanks, also, to our donors, Pelee Island Wines and Passion Flowers. Having the piano concert, performed by the outstanding Master Players at the Rosedale United Church, thanks to Reverend Doug Norris, seemed especially fitting for our 25th anniversary. Arthur Dyson taped the music so we now have a CD of Brahms played by Joe Wearing, Haydn by Ron Jordan, Debussy by Lenore Beatty, Scriabin by Sue Dexter, Chopin and Agro by Deanne Bogdan and Chopin by Joan Zarry. Glowing reports continue to come in, for the concert, the speeches which preceeded it and the reception which followed. Prior to my update on C-CAVE activities over the past year, Science for Peace and C-CAVE member, Dr. Michel Duguay, a nuclear physicist from Laval University in Quebec City spoke briefly. For over 25 years, Michel has been engaged in research, both in the private sector and at the university level. Formerly he was with the Sandia National Labs in Albuquerque, New Mexico where he worked on X-ray lasers and solar energy on behalf of AT&T Bell Labs. At Laval University in Quebec City he now works in special relativity, quantum optics, and solar energy and is actively engaged in peace and environmentally related issues. Here is brief summary of his remarks on "Owning Evolution": In 1956 my classmates and I at the College Stanislas in Montreal were introduced to the theory of evolution and invited to participate in it. At the biological level of genetic engineering this is now taking place in many laboratories around the world. Genetic therapy now seems possible at some point in the future. The psychological level of evolution is also very interesting in itself and offers new possibilities. Each person can ask: what is my relationship with my genes, with the genes of my ancestors, with the human genome, with the entire genome of living organisms? How does the interplay of cultural and genetic heritage manifest itself in me? I have experimented with thinking about genes from a point of view that gradually moves all the way back to the first cell that could reproduce some 3.5 billion years ago. When you do that frequently, a feeling of ownership of evolution comes along, a feeling which benefits the holistic concept of nested identification, a process that could have a positive effect on social behavior. For more information on how he connects his work with trends in popular culture, contact Michel at: Michel A. Duguay, Professeur Rose Anne Dyson, Ed.D. Chair: C-CAVE and the Media Working Group - Science for Peace (University of Toronto) Editor- The Learning Edge Author of MIND ABUSE: Media Violence In An Information Age Co-author of MEDIA, SEX, VIOLENCE and DRUGS in the GLOBAL VILLAGE and Terrorism, Globalization & Mass Communication |